Why are you in disaster studies? Liberating future scholars from oppressive disaster science
Abstract
Purpose
The question of “why we are in disaster studies” can be essential to reflect on discourses and practices – as students, researchers and professors – in constituting an oppressive disaster science and finding ways to liberate from it.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper is based on autobiographical research and institutional ethnography to observe and analyze the discourses and practices about career trajectories as students, researchers and professors in disaster studies.
Findings
The paper provides some categories, concepts, theoretical approaches and lived experiences helpful for discussing ways of liberating disaster studies, such as public sociology of disaster.
Originality/value
Few papers have focused on professional trajectories in disaster studies, bringing insights from public sociology and questioning oppressive disaster science.
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Acknowledgements
The author acknowledges the São Paulo Research Foundation – Fapesp (Grant Number 2018/06093-4) for his scholarship to serve as a visiting postdoctoral researcher at the Natural Hazards Center (NHC) at the University of Colorado Boulder, United States, between June 27, 2022 and June 26, 2023. The author also thanks Dr Lori Peek.
Citation
Marchezini, V. (2023), "Why are you in disaster studies? Liberating future scholars from oppressive disaster science", Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/DPM-06-2023-0150
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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